Rajesh Gupta
Rajesh Gupta | |
|---|---|
| File:SAVE 20200115 141539.jpg | |
| Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly for Wazirpur | |
| In office Feb 2015 – 8th Feb 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Mahender Nagpal |
| Succeeded by | Poonam Sharma |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Other political affiliations | Aam Aadmi Party 2015-2025 |
| Website | http://rajeshgupta.info |
Rajesh Gupta (born 2 November 1978)[1] is an Indian politician and former member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi (MLA). He has also been the Parliamentary Secretary of Health in the state. He is a member of Aam Aadmi Party and represented Wazirpur (Assembly constituency) of Delhi from 2015 to 2025.[2]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Rajesh Gupta was born in Delhi Damodar Prasad Gupta.[1] He completed his schooling from Tyagi Public School. As a teenager, he was into theatre arts and performed street plays and nukkad nataks. During the anti-corruption movement he left his family shoe business and a potential career in theatrics to join Aam Aadmi Party. He passed Class 12 in 1997.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Gupta actively participated in Anti-Corruption Protest led by Anna Hazare in 2011. He also took part in the campaigning during the 2013 Assembly elections. Eventually he contested and won as an MLA in the 2015 Delhi Elections. He secured 61,208 votes and defeated former MLA Mahander Nagpal of BJP and won by a margin of 22,044 votes. He served as a Member (2022-2023) on the Committee on Government Undertakings[3] and on the Committee on Estimates.[3]
He Joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 29 November 2025 in the presence of Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva.[4]
Controversies
[edit | edit source]In November 2022, Gupta, along with fellow AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi, was implicated in a corruption case. He was accused of demanding ₹90 lakh from a man in exchange for a party ticket for the 2022 Delhi Municipal Corporation election. The complainant, a long-time AAP supporter, alleged that both MLAs had sought the bribe to field his wife as the AAP candidate for Kamla Nagar Ward No. 69. The Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) arrested three individuals connected to the case, including Tripathi’s brother-in-law and personal assistant.[5]
The matter came to light when the complainant, who had been associated with AAP since 2014, approached the ACB, alleging that Tripathi demanded ₹90 lakh to secure a ticket for his wife. The complainant paid ₹35 lakh to Tripathi and was also pressured to pay ₹20 lakh to Gupta. After the complainant found his wife’s name missing from the candidate list, Tripathi’s brother-in-law, Om Singh, assured him that they would secure a ticket in the next election. Based on strong evidence, including CCTV footage, the Department of Vigilance recommended prosecution against the accused with the matter referred to the Delhi Assembly Speaker for sanction.[6][7]
Electoral performance
[edit | edit source]2025
[edit | edit source]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Poonam Sharma | 54,721 | 51.24 | Increase9.33 | |
| AAP | Rajesh Gupta | 43,296 | 40.54 | Decrease12.1 | |
| INC | Ragini Nayak | 6,348 | 5.94 | Increase2.73 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 652 | 0.61 | ||
| Majority | 11,425 | 10.70 | Decrease0.03 | ||
| Turnout | 1,06,136 | 55.9 | Decrease4.6 | ||
| BJP gain from AAP | Swing | ||||
<section end="Assembly Election 2020"/>
{{#section-h:Wazirpur Assembly constituency|2020}}
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).